CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



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In this family the antennae are very slender and 

 longer than the body. (This is also true of crickets.) 

 The ovipositor is sword- 

 shaped. The tarsi are four- 

 jointed. The family as a 

 whole are called the true 

 grasshoppers or the longf- 



J FIG. 53. A meadow-grasshopper. 



horned grasshoppers. Some 



of the smaller species (Fig. 53) are known as meadow- 

 grasshoppers, and a few of the larger species are 

 called katydids (Fig. 54). It should be observed 

 that, owing to an unfortunate application of names, 



FIG. 54. The angular-winged katydid and its eggs. 



